The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Safe to say most scientists, and I think most journalists, disagree with his a view. Good journalism should do its best to represent what science says, rather than treat it as a debate where every view is equally valid and readers just need to figure it out.

This is now mind numbingly obvious. Yet the media, especially the BBC, choose to ignore it and continue with this fake neutral "both sides" stuff. Trump says or does something mad, at clear odds with NATO's interests, or the UK's interests, and we're told "oh but it might work out well for us" arghh

Disliked? Can't be trusted? Never in your constituency? Come and join Reform - you'll be perfect a fit!

Absolutely normal for a democracy to ban museum exhibitions that express “improper ideology”. And in no way reminiscent of either Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or totalitarian Communist Soviet Union.

Britain on brink of going to IMF latest.

Reform has offered to pay for heating his stables.

And this:

Just thought I'd post this:

One for @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Intergalactic Lefty bedwetters like Luke Skywalker are so deranged by hatred of the Empire they are blind to the fact that, from Alderaan to Hosnian, they are on the side of the good guys - and Darth Vader is making the Galaxy a safer place

it's always worth reminding ourselves which Empire Trump is nodding to, when he says these things

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

Stewart Lee's latest offering for @thenerve.news explores Trump's invasion of Venezuela and his threats on Greenland. He poins out that the USA has a long history of invading its Latin American neighbours, but in the past has made up excuses. Trump doesn't bother. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

They used Grok to write the reply

Trump knows perfectly well he has no morality.

Technically the threshold for "bomb cyclogenesis" of an Atlantic storm is a 21mb drop over a 24 hour period, at our latitude of 50°N. The pressure here has dropped 24 mb in 11 hours, from 730am. And it's still going down. #StormGoretti

I suppose we should be grateful that Evan Davies described the Heritage Foundation as a "conservative think tank", when interviewing Lora Ries about the murder of Nicole Good by ICE agents. The stream of lies and invective from Ries washed over Davies, who was totally incapable of challenging it.

Another eight pupils at Nigel Farage's school accuse him of racism. One says he was called a "Paki" and told to "go back home" by Farage, who was three years older than him. New names say they spoke up after being angered by Farage's denials www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

"Thirty-four school contemporaries of Nigel Farage have now come forward to claim they saw him behave in a racist or antisemitic manner, raising fresh questions over the Reform leader’s evolving denials." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Met Office upgrade wind warning from Storm Goretti to Red for most of Cornwall, Isles of Scilly. Possibility of stingjet formation? weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/...

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Cos-play

This is exactly what's needed: Farage playing the victim of "politically motivated" "made-up fantasies" about his youthful racism and anti-semitism. 28 people (so far) have come forward, including fellow pupils and teachers at Dulwich College. No doubt this denial will encourage more to do so.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Hopefully seeing this egregious attack against one of theirs, will galvanise veterans groups across the USA, to challenge Trump at every turn.

Sorry is this "Lord" Toby Young of the "free speech union" bloviating his pseudo libertarian twaddle? Oh. No it's a Labour minister.

It's possible Trump decided to attack Venezuela and kidnap its president purely in order to snub Machado for accepting "his" Nobel Peace Prize.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"The event in St Petersburg was addressed by Mark Collett, a longstanding far-right activist and founder of Patriotic Alternative, which attempted to exploit the summer of unrest outside asylum hotels in Britain." Just in case anyone wonders about the 'patriotism' and what 'alternative' it favours.

We (the British), of all people, should recognise imperial force when it is being applied.

Other US Presidents have announced that their military interventions have succeeded, somewhat prematurely.

Looked for a peer-reviewed piece of scientific research to back up this blanket claim that LTNs cause more pollution not less. In fact this is a typical hit piece from the Times, which looks at one LTN, that hasn't even started yet. The "analysis", done by The Times hacks, isn't worth a jot.

Let's not mince words. These people pretend to be patriots, but are obviously traitors.

I sense Stewart Lee has been working on his latest column for some considerable time. Lee delves into psycholinguistics exploring, amongst other things, the work of language philosopher John Langshaw Austin. He argued words "do things" as well as to "assert" things. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Venezuela is not a precedent. It's happened over and over again. The US and UK conspired to depose Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 for the same reason.

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Like they ran Iraq and Afghanistan. What could possibly go wrong?

Captures implies legitimacy. Capturing a villain, or prisoners in a war. This is kidnapping.

Russia's "condemnation" of US kidnapping of Maduro is precisely the same as Trump being "not happy, not at all happy" about Putin bombing Ukraine's civilians.

Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.

Trump kidnapped Maduro to stand trial in the US. Whatever you think about him & his politics, he's not Eichmann. And err, unlike Maduro, Trump's bestie Putin has an International Criminal Court arrest warrant on his head.

Is this the same Trump who demanded he be given the Nobel Peace Prize? #Peacethruwar

I didn’t go on a plant hunt for the #newyearplanthunt but I did check out Dorchester’s only Mistletoe tree a Rowan on an industrial estate) and I have never seen such prolifically berried Mistletoes.

Nothing to see here. 2025 was just the warmest year in England for 366 years of records, but actually much much longer than that. And this happened during a La Nina event, which normally brings cooler temperatures to Northern Europe.